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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on May 15, 2006, 04:27 AM:

I am always satisfied with Tom & Jerrys released by Walton, as majority are holding the color well.

But how about the one released in France (I think all films are released by Film Office)? Do they also have good quality as Walton's.

Are they presented in French or English (but anyhow what is the matter with the language, as those cat and mouse are not meant to speak but fighting [Wink]

)

Jean-Marc will you answer this?

[ May 15, 2006, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]

Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on May 15, 2006, 06:15 AM:

Hi Winbert,

the Film Office prints were also distributed in Germany.
They are printed on AGFA. The lab which I don´t know the name, - they have always the same leaders - used only AGFA.

The titles are not original. They are replaced with french or german titles.

Because of the color I prefer the Film Office prints.

Andreas

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on May 15, 2006, 08:20 AM:

Winbert. I have a few of the F.O. releases. Colours are holding well and the titles I have are all in English. As Andreas pointed, the original logo and title cards are missing and have been replaced by generic cards.

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on May 16, 2006, 06:22 AM:

I've got some of those FilmOffice-Tom&Jerry-films, too. The magnetic soundtrack is the original English soundtrack for all of my prints. I don't know whether there are French/German/whatever language soundtracks, too. I recently saw some of these films as unstriped silent films on eBay.
As the others already said: the colours are still great.

Jörg

Posted by Mal Brake (Member # 14) on May 16, 2006, 06:54 AM:

Reading the above comments I must have been unlucky. The only FO T&J I had, 'The Night Before Christmas ' had a lot of visible grain. The Derann print I bought a few years later was much better.
Mal

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on May 16, 2006, 06:59 AM:

Joerg: Most of the short subjects released by Film Office were available in different versions. For instance, a 200ft Disney extract was most of the times available in colour+sound, b&w+sound, colour-silent, b&w-silent, and some of them were also available in 50fters, colour or b&w, always silent. Hats off to F.O., even though they were seriously editing some titles, at least they were trying to cater to every budget.

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on May 16, 2006, 05:35 PM:

I have a copy of the Film Office T&J "Night Before Xmas" and think it knocks spots off any copy I saw released in the UK. Colour is still superb and I dont think it's cut.

Kev.

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